New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-08-13
A HOLIDAY FOR SCIENTISTS
TO LEAVE THEIR PAPERS FOR ONE DAY.
INTERESTING REPORTS AND DIsCUssIoNs-MR
ATKINSON TAKEN TO TASK.

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Science The chemists, physicists, astronomers
hot,nsts and the rest dropped their lectures quizzes
and discussions for an afternoon san rouhu 'no
harbor and the bot college eeitation rooms were ie
deserted by all p the most industrous Slippers VI
ans,n,e knowledge At The invitation OF the directors
of the Union Ferry Company OF Brooklyn. through
Mira I : r Stranahan, nearly 600 members OF the
association embarked after lunch on the Kerry ooa'
BROOKLYN, and 1t after dark, so cool ana eN-
rlarating was the trip around the island before inc
delighted scientists got back. For once grave doc'ois
learned urof. ssors, enthusiastic amateurs ana
madens thir ting for a deep knowledge oil enJoyed
themselves together quite As II there LAD never oe
su ch things the world proozoa oastoderps a"u
iebtbyovterygIa Some OF the more conscientous
however kept up a semblanee OF investigation anu
took object in engineering from the Bridge In
h oh art at Bellows island. in military and naVa
science at Governor, Island and the Navy fard snu
in navigation from the winding course OF the boat III
the effort to show the patty everything that was
" orth seeing. %,
The ferryb boat Brooklyh left Whitehall-st at 2:4o
n. IN. and st AIMED up the East River to the Navy
Yard and then down to Governors Island. where tue
marty went ON shore with strict inJuncuons 10 coHo
hack in fifteen minutes. The museum SO iasclnafo
a.. sc;cntiGc mlad thar some of the party got no
further before the whistle blew TOR the return, but
others pressed and mounted the rampars VI fote
Columbus ~here the mathemaicians were iuliy pau
for their trouble by tie "re-entrant angles oi tne
wall When all were board again the pilot ia'd
his cour for Coney Island. not to land but to give
the geological section view OF the elephant ana
then turning, the boat came back up the naroo',
passinp close to Bedows Island. where Liberty
s,i Dis ike the scientists, "enlghtenng the world.
TIE marty reached the city at O'Clock, and went up
town refres FOL the serious business OF the
evening.
No more serious work will be done until Monday.
To-day the members of the association will have their
choice between two steamboat outirgs run up the
Hudson "a far az Vest Point on the NewYork, OF the
Albany Day Line, and one to Long Branch on the
boats of the Iron Steamboat COMPANY. The Hudson
River party ill leave TIE pier mt West lwrnty'
second st. st a. H., returning IRON west foiht on
the Albany which wilt reach New-fork at $50 p. m.
The Long Branch e1curs on will start from Pier NO.
4 North River, at 10 n ID. Return tickets will be
cool until u-ed but most OF the party are e1pected
back on the boot arriving in New-YoTk at $50 p. M
There vii be no sessions of the ASSOCIATION Tomorrow
The eight sections met promptly yesterday ut 10
a H. Most OF the work was OF the routine technical
order the lecturers in phvsics and geology drawing
the ian gest audiences. Those who went NJ 10 koom
40 on the third floor OF Hamilton Hall. where the
section IN economic science and statistics was holding
It's deliberations caught the Tost timely and readable
naer OF The day Professor +. j. James professor OF
poliuca economy IN the University oil Pennsylvania,
was tue first speaker and in hi' address on The
testimony of statistics TO cur National rogress he
took occasion TO pitch Vigorously into the array oil
Grur.s on the basis Of which Edward Atkinson. the
Boston economist, has ben building up go dazzling
bric of American power anu prosperity IN tie pages
Of recent numbers of " The Century" Professor
Jane. - a youthful looking scIenti,t OF the Pennsy-
yania 2 rhoo ard his attacks on the ew-Eugiand
economist aad his conclusions pushed Will spirit
aud ac1tene-s all along the line. The articles ~ The
Century" Profess James -ad, highly sanguIne
and optimistic, overlooking many patent facts and
laws They were misleading. too, in that they bent
everything prove progress IN ~e'lih under tho
present manufacturing and farming system, whereas
much OF the apparent increase at wealth was due to
the exhaustive effects OF that system which had not
vet begun show themselves fairly Herr is the part
of the paper it,elt witch zoe, most directly To tue
root of the difference between the lecturer and Mr.
Atkinson:
III understand position OF tho ,angune economists
Is briefly ths As nation We are easing our -e'th AZ
TO he ssfi.h,d wHh our proEtsss tn, wealth Ia,
r r OF omo.t,on th,i ", have s,sfy reason 10 oon
STau or oT on the e. 30 say, Professor Akin
dissent most cmrlatcaiy Hlm IN se 60 olns"..
country as MAI vii ch Professor Atkluson display. bat
base on the belief that We s. at MANI poln' NIKE taal'
a.. s nI hi, have nv NAM esss sothhT to urrn ain.t
even he do not at all the
Pat Of hgurr, AID dls taxa rom the csn.n,
reports concerned super nendent The oensu e2s
lore isSo relating 10 industry The highest degree nm
Trustworthy. H. horever. take for granted ia Mr.
Aikn,un. ngures ale Trustworthy ami complete ever en-
they dc not show What ne, appr.r 10 prove al Is hands
ouiuuning the population But TIE average
yyrs b%ins ss3 Iime We have been taking snor@oo,
uf land cultivation whfh produced
al ernunv much more thsn he average numoer o.
Lu-h-s The General syt-ee have I,n unless me
exactly What has happnrd We have been dons WIN our
large forrsts-eihausuuE Them by reckless
ass ih Is egSr s.o.En ron , S ct nu, 'en' a as
1889 although some lands have been opened 40 IA The VEST
.ansain bel present -ni future prospect, Of
The Census lss0 "Thr time Tar distant when con
na.nee IN III, r9ey Of vi" 30 one one W % a
wheat growing States tobacco IL akn tire lace Of vlelt
soiS 10 an, agricultural re.ion where 1t IS earned
are morr4lo amount the Of which hi,
average labofer needs Tor average consmmph - away DC
under sSs@g eS"aeP sm Wi Of & T. s
children a, one sIa , ha' gown s h s'
any great city But Liking as - AMI aiding the sverage
amount viii reach 5000 estimate
Sf noon oI @ from OF In, o. ,sHse
long Of cases fall 10 mad more thar small
red year Is g. say Two dolars day ~ more than inc
much must have few IDLE days in the working sea
The amount of comfort elegance
dollar. day for nve Ps.nns you nan ."asi9e iST
iaSorsrs reported BY the Pennsylva@a Bureau OF
Only three industries paid than ~ week
Mr. Atkinson allows Tor tie the maeiit Of food
for family Of i've The condition. Of life are becoming more
the nec is NARROWING car remember when wa, possible
vases in few years " buy aud stock tary acre farm
ns. !, 100 ~ ~. comnon hing or machan'c ybant
capital which would grow tho largest
oountTy. To-day he have capital
he stands little chance
number OF xbOrers Is rapidly increasing. The hopes
that Sborer- becon anything but sborers
mAhuactur Is large scale Even
In o
which outlook thing better than
| A. by Industry, abstL
thrift could look becoming hr
likely he content with low and Inferior position
this conservas Is largely weakened II hborer
but lsboi his only hope IL
prov@nent Of the 1ondion jorsrs az class There Is
no have here the bitter and
| tinurd struggle.
do to In To this that wealth
| glL fasl nd
| rather than better Nor Is II wholly salts
| factory ~ that
\ for the point Ia are they increasing fast
allow the aborinE classes lard of
satisfied with
enL and enlist majority OF them on the sis OF